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Originally posted by Devil@Mar 22 2005, 04:05 PM
Is it true that Hitler thrown into fire by his own men after he killed himself
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His body was cremated on-site. There are several books on the subject, with details varying. The witnesses present were under the highest level of stress, but the convergence is the same: the body was taken up the stairs to the bomb-blasted yard near the Fuhrerbunker, doused with gasoline, and burned. They didn't do a good job of it, as it was not incinerated thoroughly, and the Soviets found enough bones to make an indentification. There was even less fuel to eliminate the cadavers of Goebbels and his wife. Of all the descriptions I've read, Joseph O'Donnell's The Bunker has the best comment on the scene, quoting the Prophet Isaiah on the bizarre tableaux.
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